Tree found growing inside man

[faceless]

Tree removed from inside man
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Surgeons have found a 5cm tree growing inside a man's lungs. They made the discovery while Artyom Sidorkin, 28, from Russia, was undergoing surgery, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reported. He had been complaining of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood and his doctors suspected cancer.

"I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things," surgeon Vladimir Kamashev told the paper. Medical staff believe Sidorkin had somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted inside his lung. The spruce, which was touching the man's capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed. "It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me," Mr Sidorkin said.

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Last night I watched an episode of Mythbusters in which they showed that it was possible for bamboo to grow right through a human body - this was used as a method of torture... ooyah!

[Skylace]

I remember as a kid being told not to eat watermelon seeds because they would grow inside me! Oy vey!

[eefanincan]

I hear he'll spruce right up....

[SpursFan1902]

Good thing it was tree-table...

[faceless]

leaf it out spurs!

[SpursFan1902]

You know my bark is worse than my bite...

[eefanincan]

He's "pine"ing for his lost lung...... but I don't want to get too "sappy" about it all.

[SpursFan1902]

ee - you should "branch" out into comedy...you would have to "log" some serious time on stage, though...

[TheCaptain]

I have, on occaisons, felt a tree growing in my own body.

Usually in the morning...

[eefanincan]

[SpursFan1902]

I am trying to get you to go out on a "limb" and try something new... You should pack a "trunk" and hit the road!!

[eefanincan]

Good puns spurs...... "tree" bien!

[Skylace]

I'm just rooting for him to feel better soon.

[SpursFan1902]

It's knot that I don't agree with you Sky, I wood like to see him get better too!

[SpursFan1902]